Combined cover and holder for drinking vessels.



No. 862,802. PATENTED AUG. 6, 190?.

. BRUGEL.

COMBINED COVER AND HOLDER POR DRINING VESSELS. APPLIOAT'ION FILED Jim-z3. 1907.

LUDWIG BRUGEL, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CMBINED COVER AND HOLDER FOR DRINKING VESSELS.

Application filed January 23,1907. Serial No. 353,573.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that l, LUDwreBRUenL, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore City and State of Maryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Combined Cover and Holder for Drinking Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined cover and holder for drinking vessels, being'designed especially for use in connection with soda. water glasses, and has for its objects to provide a comparatively simple, inexpensive device of this character wherein the cover will entirely close the vessel and prevent the entrance of foreign matter thereinto, one in which the cover may be readily moved to open position at the will of the drinker, and

one wherein the c'over will, duringthe intervals between drafts, move automatically to closed position.

With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure '1 is a side .elevation of a device embodying the invention and showing the same applied for use. Fig. 2 a plan view, partly in section, of the holderlwith the drinking vessel removed therefrom, the section being taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. l.

Referring to thel drawings, 1 designates the holder provided with a handle 2, preferably of theorm shown, 1

presenting upper and lower end portions 3, the holder, which is of skeleton formation, being designed to receive a glass or other drinking vessel 4 and having a bottom 5 on which the bottom 'of the vessel rests when positioned in the. holder.

Arranged to seat over and close the upper end or mouth of the vessel 4 is a closure plate or cover V6 provided with a rearwardly projecting, radial portion or arm 7 ulcrumed between its ends by means lof a pintle 8 to theaipper end of a bearing bracket 9 iorrned on the upper end portion 3 of the handle, there being connected between the bracket 9 and cover 6 an expansible spring l0 for holding the cover in closed position and against the action of which the lever moves as presently explained.

Pivoted at its elbow, as at 11, to the upper end portion 3 ofthe handle is a bell crank lever12* disposed as shown, presenting a vertically depending'arm and an inwardly prog'ecting horizontal arm, to the inner end,

of'which there is pivotedone end of a link connection 13 having its` other end pivotally engaged with 'an ear pivoted at its lower `end to the handle 2 is an operating lever 15 `having its upper end attached by a pin and slot connection 16, 17, with the lower end of the vertical portion of lever l2, there being arranged between the leverv lland'handle 2 a compressible spring 18 against the action of which the lever moves.y

In practice, when the vessel is arranged in the holder, the cover 6 will effectually close the upper end of the vessel and be maintained in closed position by means ofthe spring l0. During the operation of drinking, thehandle 2 is grasped and when it is desired to move the c'over 6 to open position, pressure is exerted on the lever 15 for moving the'same against? the action of spring 18 toward the handle 2, whereby the lever 12 will be rocked on its pivot in a `direction for exerting downward traction on the connection 13 and rear end of the arm 6, thus throwing the cover to open position, it being noted that when pressure on the. lever' 15 is relieved, the spring 10 will move the cover automatically to closed position.

It is to be observed that in the operation of the device the contentsof the vessel will be effectually protected against contamination by Ydust or other foreign substances andthat the coverfmay, by slight pressure on the lever l5, be moved to open position at thewill of the operator.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim is: 1: In a device of the class described, the combination of a structure comprising a handle and a pairof rings out-- standing therefrom Vand integrally conneted therewith, an

upward extension onthe handle, a cover fulcrumed on the' extension,- a bell crank lever on the handle, a pitman between the leverandcover, "a spring connected withthe vcover for'holding it closed, a spring pressed lever operated by the handwhilc gripping the handle, and a slot and piu connection between the last mentioned lever and the bell crank lever.

2..'In a device of the class described, the combination of a handle, means thereon for holding a vessel, a bracket on the top of the-handle, a cover hinged on the bracket, a spring between the bracket and cover forholding Vthe latter closed, a bell crank lever fulcrumedon the handle, a pitman connecting the cover and lever, and a spring pressed member on the handle and connected with the lever foi-vac# tuating the same.

In testimony' whereof, I ax my signature in presence of two witnesses.

.LUDWIG BRUGEL.

Witnesses E. G. SHIPLEY, PHILIP BISSoN. 

